Well the last week or so has been so busy you cannot believe. Quite a number of house guests as well. Vickie my ex pa who now has a great job in the company came and spent an evening with us and it was great to talk over old times. Noel has been working quite hard on the Pandair Reunion which took place on Friday 23 October with about 65 people attending and I am glad to say it was a great success based on the huge amount of feedback. If you want to know more about this function check out the following web pages http://pandair.blogspot.com/ Roger and Sue our friends who we stayed in Spain with came to spend two night and also another friend Brian and also Jan from Holland who had failed to make a Hotel booking and so we almost had a full house. Saturday morning entailed a great walk to Walton Bridge where the five of us, Noel,Jen, Roger, Sue and Brian were joined by John and Lyn for a breakfast at the 'Josefs' Cafe. A good breakfast was had by all. WE got back
to the house around 11.30 as Joanne was arriving for her day of tripping the light fantastic in readiness for here forthcoming wedding. Saturday night we had a BBQ for about 14 including us, thank heavens it did not rain, and it was a really great night indeed with mulled wine and Indian snacks followed by to much steak, BBQ'd leg of lamb, pork ribs and sausages and rather a lot of wine. Boy were we slow on Sunday and thankful for the extra hour it provided. Although our guests helped us partly clear up the previous night there was still a bit of sorting out to do and the great job of cleaning the BBQ grills for the winter. An afternoon of football on Sky and we had an early night. Noel had a lunch with ex business colleagues in Egham and 
perhaps overdid the wine a little but a great time was meeting people not seen for many years. A necessary trip to the Charlton dump with all the garden rubbish, the leaves have started to fall and so we will have to go every week for a while. Jennifer and Joanne spent time on Tuesday evening decorating the wedding cake whilst Noel watched the football. On Thursday 29th as the weather was bright it was pretty much the last chance to close down the caravan for winter and put on its cover to keep it clean over the long months. Noel purchased a couple of years ago,a small trickle charger for the Leisure battery which needs to be kept charged to enable the security tracking system to stay on and this also need to be fitted. And now we are pretty much up to date and we are having some venetian blinds being fitted in the Garden room today which hopeful should finish this room from a decoration perspective. Phew it has been busy. On Saturday we are going to the Royal Albert Hall where Joanne and many others are taking part in the 'Festival of Sound and Voices' in aid of Cancer Research. The following is the description of the concert from the Albert Hall website "The tri-annual Cancer Research UK Festival of Brass and Voices brings together the collective sound of one thousand five hundred male and female voices from around the UK for an evening of traditional and classical music. The theme of the festival follows closely the format of the Last Night of the Proms, where audience participation is included in such pieces as Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory. The choirs will be accompanied by the fantastic Royal Albert Hall organ and two prestigious award-winning champion bands, Grimethorpe Colliery, made famous by the film Brassed Off, and Brighouse and Rastrick, who will be well-remembered for their chart-topping record The Floral Dance. The whole proceedings, including the musical direction, will be under the baton of William Relton, formerly General Manager of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The event, we feel sure, will live up to the standard of all previous festivals, ensuring a most memorable experience for all who attend. This year's festival at the Royal Albert Hall will hope to raise £100,000 for Cancer Research UK, so join us for a truly wonderful evening!"
So we are looking forward to a great evening.
